The Qing Dynasty is about to end

Chapter 578 My sister is the Queen and my brother is Judah!
Amid the long whistle, a steamship of 10 to tons flying the Union Jack was slowly approaching the dock of Singapore Harbor. Several high-ranking officials of the British Straits Settlements on the dock looked at the big ship coming from the Indian Ocean with gloomy faces - something big had happened in India! On the th of this month, the Indians in Meerut rebelled. Just one day later, the Indian rebels invaded Delhi and pushed the Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah II, who had lost all his territory and only had a palace left, to be the leader of the rebellion!

When the news reached Singapore, the white officials there felt that the sky of Great Britain was about to fall! This "sky falling" was not because the Indian rebellion was too big - no matter how big the Indian rebellion was, the officials in Singapore had nothing to worry about. Could the Indian rebels build a navy to attack Singapore? Even if they could, it would not be that fast!

What really made them feel like the sky was falling was that all the Chinese in Singapore knew about the Indian rebellion half a month before it happened!

It's so awesome! Before the Indians rebelled, the Chinese in Singapore were discussing it on the streets. After three or four days of discussion, Edmund Brandel, the skinny Scotsman who was the governor of the Straits Settlements in Singapore, got the news from a Chinese comprador. Then he quickly refuted and investigated the rumors - isn't this just misleading people?
The Indians only rebelled on May 5, so how come you Chinese were already spreading the rumor in late April? You are so careless in making up this rumor.

The colonial police station immediately went to investigate and soon found the source, but they did not dare to arrest him because the source of the rumor was someone they could not afford to offend, and now the Archbishop of the Nanyang Archdiocese, Wei Jun, was sent by Zhenyue!
He was the brother of Wei Changhui, the Northern King of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the national leader of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. He might even be a relative of the Queen of England. According to the news from Europe, the Queen seemed to have admitted that she was the reincarnation of Jesus' sister Mary, and also acknowledged that several kings of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were relatives of Jesus, including Wei Changhui, the Northern King, who was the reincarnation of Judah.

Can this brother of Judah be arrested casually?
Moreover, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has diplomatic immunity, and it also has its Archbishop's Guard in Singapore.

What made Brandel and his men even more nervous was that the "rumor" of Ah San's rebellion turned into a "prophecy" and it came true! Ah San really rebelled. Do you think the sky is falling?
The Zhenyue sect originally practiced shamanism, and if the shamanism was effective, then it was believed that there were real gods.
Thinking of this, Edmund Brandel turned his head and glanced at "Judas's younger brother" Wei Jun. This gentleman also came to the dock today to welcome the distinguished guests - he was really well-informed. Brandel also learned that there was a "civilian investigation team" led by Sir John Bonham, the Director of Oriental Mystery Affairs of the British Magic Committee, on the "Oriental Princess" that arrived in Singapore today. The archbishop got the news.

Needless to say, there are also true-Yetian people in the Governor's Mansion. The tentacles of this true-Yetian faction are really everywhere! It makes Edmund Brandel want to be anti-Chinese.

But looking at Wei Jun's large sedan chair with an awning carried by eight men and the well-dressed men from the Christian Protection Corps guarding on both sides, I decided to give up.

When Edmund Brandel looked over, Wei Jun, who was sitting crookedly in the sedan chair, was fanning himself triumphantly! He was sent to Nanyang three years ago to replace Luo Dagang as the archbishop. As soon as he arrived in Nanyang, he was bullied by Brandel! He was not allowed to do this, and he could not do that. The most hateful thing was that the British were only allowed to manage their own little piece of land, but they actually had to manage the so-called "British-protected Sultanates" in the Dutch East Indies, Borneo and the Malay Peninsula, and they were not allowed to destroy those countries by the people sent by the British. This was really intolerable!
But that coward Luo Yaoguo just didn't want to cause too much trouble in Nanyang. He would rather invest resources in Japan and the west coast of the United States than increase his investment in Nanyang. Wei Jun wrote a letter asking his brother Wei Changhui to find a way to fight for it, but Wei Changhui wrote back asking him to be patient!
They said that the opportunity for the True Treaty faction to expand its power on the west coast of the United States and Japan was gone, but we can be patient in Southeast Asia for now and let the True Treaty faction engage in a "legal struggle" instead of fighting with the British and the Dutch. Once the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's industrialization is established, everything will be ours!
This may make sense, but Wei Jun is not happy about it!
Fortunately, he is the archbishop of Nanyang, the boss of the True Covenant sect in Nanyang, and he still has some power in his hands. He not only manages the entire Nanyang, including all the True Covenant bishops in the Indochina Peninsula, but also manages the Lan Fang Kingdom. The Lan Fang Kingdom has 2,000 Lan Fang soldiers trained by Luo Dagang!

Moreover, he did not go to Southeast Asia empty-handed. Many people from the Northern Palace also came to Southeast Asia with him.

So when Luo Yaoguo did not support him in his actions, he set up his own "black glove" of the True Contractual Nanyang Archdiocese - the Nanyang Trading Company, claiming to be a chartered trading company!
Many things that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Central Committee and the True Covenant Sect Headquarters did not allow were handled by this franchised trading company.

As a result, during these three years, he suffered even more bullying from the Governor of the British Straits Settlements. But during this period of time, he finally got to hold his head high!

First, he received unbelievable good news from the UK - he had a sister named Victoria, who was the Queen of England! It turned out that the eldest brother of the UK was a sibling of his brother in his previous life!
Later, his brother Wei Changhui, also known as "Wei Judas", wrote him a letter, telling him that a major Indian uprising would break out in British India around May 5, and asked him to act accordingly. So he released this prophecy, of course, in the name of his brother "Wei Judas".

As a result, the prophecy came true in the past two days. He has attracted thousands of believers in Singapore alone, and many of them are white Singaporeans!
As soon as the gangway of the Oriental Princess was put on the dock, Sir Bonham's leather shoes stepped on the wet flagstones of Singapore. He had served as the governor here for several years and had invested in a tin mine on the nearby Malay Peninsula, so he was very familiar with this land.

This is a loyal and valuable colony of the British Empire, where many white masters and hardworking Chinese live.
When he was just sighing about his fate with this land, Wei Jun's sedan chair blocked the way. Eight sturdy men with bare bronze arms carried the sedan chair, and the flintlock pistols and Taiping swords on their waists jingled.

Behind the sedan chair there was a whole team of "True Covenant Crusaders" wearing red scarves and red clothes, with fanatical looks under their turbans, as if this Nanyang Chief Wei was also a great immortal with boundless magical powers.

"Lord Wen!" Wei Jun lifted his robe and jumped down from the sedan chair, then clasped his fists and bowed, "We meet again! Tell me quickly, has sister Victoria really accepted my brother, His Royal Highness the Northern King, as her soul brother?" He was waving a copy of The Times in his hand, and the headline was a picture of Victoria and her "soul brother" riding in a carriage through the streets of London.

Bonham saw that Governor Brandel's face had turned red - the Scotsman was clutching the brim of his hat, his knuckles white. The garrison commander behind him, Charles Grant, simply put his hand on his sword, his red beard twitching with his heavy breathing.

"Your Majesty... there is indeed such an order." Wen Xian squeezed out a few words from between his teeth, and beads of sweat on his forehead slid into his collar. This matter is really ridiculous, but there is no doubt about it!

The Queen must be the reincarnation of Jesus' sister, and Wei Changhui is most likely Jesus' brother Judas.
As soon as he finished speaking, thunderous cheers erupted behind Wei Jun. A dozen True Covenant priests waved the True Covenant Complete Book with Hong Xiuquan’s sage printed on the cover, and shouted in Minnan dialect: "May Heavenly Brother protect you! The Heavenly King is with the Holy Queen of England!"

Brandel finally couldn't hold back any longer and shouted in stiff Chinese: "Bishop Wei! This is Her Majesty's colony, not a temple fair for you to perform rituals!"

Wei Jun, however, stood with his hands on his hips and laughed, with half of the revolver barrel exposed from his yellow robe. "Your Excellency the Governor, you are wrong! My brother's prediction came true, didn't it? I said that the Indians would rebel, and they did!"

He suddenly approached Brandel, frightening the governor who was a little unsure of who was the real god and stepped back repeatedly: "Guess... I dreamed last night that you took a boat back to Edinburgh to retire. When will this dream come true?"

The dock was suddenly silent.

Grant's hand had already grasped the hilt of the sword, but he was stopped by a look from Wenxian - Wei Jun could indeed call Queen Victoria "sister" in a roundabout way! On the "Oriental Princess" was also a gift from the Queen to her "soul brother" Wei Changhui, a sword inlaid with gems.

"Lord Wen," Wei Jun said with a smile, "I have already prepared a welcome drink for you and your friends in the cathedral. Please come and have a look."

"Okay," Wen Xian nodded, "I just happen to have something to discuss with the Archbishop."

Wei Jun was overjoyed when he saw Wen Xian giving him face. He pointed to several carriages parked outside the dock and said, "Sir Wen, please come in."

Wenxian turned around and called Moore, Friedrich, Bai Siwen and others to go together.

As the carriage rolled over the cobblestone road of the dock, Friedrich began to carefully observe this colonial city that mixed Eastern, Western and local Southeast Asian styles.

Outside the car window, the Chinatown district was lined with arcades, with yellow flags of the Zhenyue faction and Union Jacks hung alternately. A clerk from a silk shop was stepping on a bamboo ladder to change the sign - Bai Siwen later told him that the sign had five big characters "Tianyou Silk Shop" written on it.

When the motorcade turned into Xi Street, the crowd on the street suddenly became excited. It turned out that dozens of True Yueh sect female believers were carrying a gilded statue of Hong Xiuquan in a parade, with people beating gongs and drums and lion dancing in front of them. Moore wrote in his notebook: "The Chinese in Southeast Asia seem to like the True Yueh sect sincerely."

In a small school on the corner of the street, a dozen young Chinese people wearing the badges of the "Angel Society" were led by an old Chinese man to recite "The Land System of the Heavenly Kingdom" in Minnan dialect.

As the cast iron door of the cathedral slowly opened, Friedrich smelled the smell of gunpowder mixed with incense sticks. The courtyard was filled with tin ingots and copper blocks, which were being melted into statues of Hong Xiuquan. Wei Jun twisted his beard proudly: "Sooner or later, these statues will be spread all over Nanyang and will be everywhere!"

That night, Moore wrote in his "Eastward Journey": "There is no doubt that the True Covenant faction has already shown its ambition to swallow up the entire region, and the Europeans here are not ignorant of it."

(End of this chapter)